There was a time in the distant past when Americans considered the threat of nuclear annihilation to be a more imminent threat. People built fallout shelters, and schools practiced drills, teaching ...

For many of us, the chilling call of the air-raid siren has faded into distant memory, a civil defense ghost of the Cold War only revisited in the occasional cinematic period piece or the ...

This story is best experienced with sound on, though some may find the noises alarming. The air raid sirens screamed first, their wail cutting through the nighttime hush, keening danger. Then came the ...